Posted February 20, 200619 yr This series of stories appeared in the 2/19/06 Dayton Daily News. These were in response to MeadWestvaco's announcements that it would be moving hundreds of downtown jobs out of the state. There is a thread about that in Ohio B&E. Don't panic: Downtown's just fine, officials say MeadWestvaco making cuts; others adding jobs in core By Jim DeBrosse Dayton Daily News DAYTON | To paraphrase Mark Twain, the news of downtown Dayton's demise is "greatly exaggerated," city officials say, despite news that MeadWestvaco will withdraw 350 jobs from the city core. The bigger picture is far more encouraging, they said. The number of jobs in the Central Business District — an area bounded by rivers on the north and west, U.S. 35 on the south and Keowee Street to the east — has remained stable at 26,000 during the past three years, said Maureen Pero, president of the Downtown Dayton Partnership. Likewise, office vacancy rates downtown (18 percent) remain consistent with those in the suburbs, Pero said, as well as in Ohio's other cities. Read More... Smaller companies make biggest gains, officials say Downtown job levels stable despite some large pullouts By Jim DeBrosse Dayton Daily News DAYTON | For every corporate withdrawal that grabs headlines, there has been the steady but less heralded addition of new jobs downtown by Sinclair Community College, health care organizations and smaller firms of fewer than 100 employees, city officials say. "The number of jobs (in downtown) has remained flat for the past three years," said Maureen Pero, president of the Downtown Dayton Partnership. "Premier Health Partners continues to grow rapidly (downtown) and we hope to have more," Pero said. The umbrella non-profit firm for Miami Valley and Good Samaritan hospitals now occupies 85 percent of the 24-story 40 West Fourth Centre at Fourth and Ludlow streets, she said. Read More... List of companies that have at least 200 employees in Downtown Dayton By the Dayton Daily News • Sinclair College: 2,600 • Regional Transit Authority: 700 • MeadWestvaco* • Relizon: 450 • Premier Health Partners: 400 • Dayton Daily News: 400 • Reynolds and Reynolds* • Key Bank* • Community Blood Center: 350 • CareSource Inc.: 300 • Dayton Public Schools: 300 • Fifth Third Bank* • Dayton Dragons* • National City Bank* • SBC (Now AT&T)* • Woolpert, Inc.* • NewPage Corp: 300 *All companies listed have at least 200 employees downtown. Source: Downtown Dayton Partnership http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/content/business/daily/0219bizlist.html
February 20, 200619 yr In the actual CBD, about 27,000 (since half of our buildings are vacant)? Around the CBD, I'd venture double (or triple?) that (due to the hospitals, warehouses, etc). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 20, 200619 yr 26,000, 27,000, 25,000 who cares. As long as the Neon Movies are there, I don't care if it's 10. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 21, 200619 yr This story is a little more pessimistic. From the 2/21/06 Dayton Business Journal: MeadWestvaco job cuts to hit downtown Tracy Kershaw-Staley DBJ Staff Reporter Everyone from downtown Dayton coffee shop owners to real estate brokers stand to feel the effects of MeadWestvaco Corp.'s restructuring plans announced this week. The company is eliminating 500 jobs in the Dayton area as it consolidates divisions and relocates its headquarters from Connecticut to Virginia. About 230 jobs will stay here with the Consumer and Office Products division, but the company said it is too soon to say whether those employees will still work downtown at the MeadWestvaco Tower. Local government and business leaders are concerned these job losses could deal a blow to downtown's economy. The situation in the city's core could worsen in coming months, as two other large downtown employers are searching for new homes. NewPage Corp., which has about 250 employees in the tower, has said it plans to look around the region for potential locations. The Dayton Daily News also is considering moving hundreds of employees who work at its Ludlow Street headquarters to a new location. Read More...
March 1, 200619 yr More depressing news. Downtown faces more closings By Jim Dillon Dayton Daily News DAYTON | — The winds of change continued to blow through downtown Dayton on Tuesday, two weeks after MeadWestvaco Corp. announced it will move 500 jobs out of downtown by summer's end. • The owners of home furnishings retailer Go Home and eclectic boutique Ashley & Hilary said they will close their stores in the Cannery building downtown to focus on their other stores in Centerville. The Cannery's owner said she hopes to fill the vacancies created by the stores' departures. • Citilites, the restaurant in the Schuster Performing Arts Center, will switch formats starting Saturday, a move that will leave the Racquet Club as the last fine-dining restaurant downtown. • Members of the Dayton Woman's Club said the club will close by the end of May unless its fortunes and membership show significant improvement. The club has existed 90 years. • Bill Rain, a local redeveloper of downtown buildings, has dissolved his company and moved to Tampa, Fla., to work for DeBartelo Development. He said he has no idea what will happen to his last project, the Schwind building on South Ludlow Street. http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/content/business/daily/0301downtown.html --------------------------------------- Developer leaves city, building behind Dayton claims Bill Rain owes $179,000 on loan for Schwind By Stephanie Irwin Dayton Daily News DAYTON | No man is an island, but one downtown restaurant operator caught in the stalled redevelopment of the former Schwind building feels like one. Tom Xarhoulacos, who owns the 37-year-old Moraine Embassy at 25 S. Ludlow St. with his two brothers, wants answers about the future of the building that houses their restaurant now that the building's owner has left Dayton. Bill Rain, a local real estate developer, bought the building from the city of Dayton in 2004 to develop it into market-rate apartments. But he has liquidated Rain and Associates and taken a job with shopping center developer DeBartolo Development in Tampa, Fla. Read More... --------------------------------------- Cannery losing tenants; slow business blamed Go Home, Ashley & Hilary to focus on other locations By Shannon Joyce Nealand Ann Heller Dayton Daily News DAYTON | Go Home, the downtown-area home furnishings store in the Cannery, will close its store at Wayne Avenue and Third Street this month to focus on its Centerville location, the owner said Tuesday. Audrey Buckman, the store's owner, said sales and foot traffic at the downtown store have declined in the past two years, while business at her new Centerville store is going strong. "People shop where they live," Buckman said. "It's nothing against downtown, because (downtown) has been nothing but a success for me." Read More... --------------------------------------- Money shortage may spell end for Woman's Club 90-year-old club may close doors at end of May By Benjamin Kline Dayton Daily News DAYTON | Members of the Dayton Woman's Club met Tuesday to hash out the future of the 90-year-old organization. The taste was not sweet. "We need more money. I'm not ashamed to say it," club president Barbara Markham said. "Unless something miraculous happens, we will close our doors at the end of May." Founded in 1916, the Woman's Club attracted white-gloved ladies who would shop at Rike's, then walk over to the old Darst mansion, 225 N. Ludlow St., for their lunch. Read More...
March 2, 200619 yr wow...and here i was planning to have dinner at Citilites before the opera on Saturday! Damn. Actually all this is not good. Go Home had a real presence at that corner, and actually was in the area for quite a while. As for the Embassy..that was one of the old school downtown places, like Arcade Seafood and the Century. They have been really screwed with that 'Schwind' deal. Not to mention Hutchins has pulled out more or less from that entertainment district.
March 2, 200619 yr Downtown Dayton is rather blah, but that's not unique to Dayton. Why don't Ohioans have pride in their cities? Another topic, I guess.
March 3, 200619 yr 2. Ohio cities in general lack nightlife compared to other cities their size. That is the one thing that Dayton is still good about...places in town to hear live music...where its possible to walk from club to club to catch different bands and acts. If venues like Canal Street Tavern, Oregon Express, Gillys and so forth start to close down, well thats all she wrote for me for in-town Dayton (aside from the gay bars). In any case, Go Home was having their furniture sales in their Washtington Township store, while the Cannery store was more incidentals and housewares and acessories. Apparently modern furniture sells well here, as there is a furninture store in Wash Twp/Centerville that also sells modern..but its all made at the store by this immigrant guy from the Czech Republic (I think he was a refugee after the war)...his pieces is all based on Scandinavian/Danish modern...beautiful wood and simple upholstered things. Olmar. Functional without being cold. He also sells some import pieces, too. But there is still his furniture workshop in the back of the store. As for Ashley and Hillary, they are also in Centerville, though the article didn't say that. They have a store in what used to be a coffeeshop at the intersection of 725 and 48...I think they moved there this year. From the Canneryto this location.....in this building: ..at least they are making use of a historic old building again, though this time in Centerville not Dayton proper. @@@@ And here is downtown Daytons latest abandoned/vacant high rise...the Schwind Building, formerly the Moraine Apartments.
March 3, 200619 yr The article also fails to mention that Joey Eric has moved out of the Cannery to a location on Brown Street near UD. What's going on at the Cannery? Did they jack up the rent? BTW, the owner of Square One and Therapy Cafe said his business are doing better than ever.
March 3, 200619 yr The sad thing about this is that a big art gallery (or collection of gallery spaces) just opened, and another "private" gallery for someone called Landsiedel will be opening tomorrow. So, just as this Cannery complex was starting to fill-out at the ground floor, there are these vacancies.
March 3, 200619 yr That is the one thing that Dayton is still good about...places in town to hear live music...where its possible to walk from club to club to catch different bands and acts. If venues like Canal Street Tavern, Oregon Express, Gillys and so forth start to close down, well thats all she wrote for me for in-town Dayton. If that is one thing Dayton will never be rid of, it's live music. Too many bohemian whites boys and coked-up blacks folks for that. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 3, 200619 yr ^ Hah! Given the average age of some of the shows I've been at at CST, i wouldn't call the all the audience for this stuff "boys"...you'd probably see older crowds at the jazz venues too. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The restaurant owners are also seeking damages for lost revenue stemming from the unfinished construction that left the restaurant with a doorway that violates city building codes, no storefront sign and "pieces of rock falling onto the drop ceiling from the gutting of the building," Xarhoulacos said. So Xarhoulacos has sued the city? All that has to happen now is for the city to write-up the restuarant for the noncompliant doorway, and fine Xarhoulacos if he doesn't fix it. Hardball. Actually, if the DDN vacates their buildings, and the Schwind is vacant, the city can take over both properties and tear them down, creating some "strategically located parking" for the school board buildings south of 4th on Ludlow.
March 3, 200619 yr Serioulsy, its a real bummer whats happened to the Embassy, and that Schwind building....a real bummer.
March 3, 200619 yr Tell me about it. But the real bummer is White Tower switching to whatever barbeque joint that is. Smokey Joe's or whatever. BAH!!!!! Bring back THAT White Tower! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 15, 200619 yr Well, now it looks like the Dayton Daily News is leaving. That leaves, what, on that block of Ludlow? ...the Embassy, the Doubletree, and Kinkos.
March 15, 200619 yr Hey, but that Kinkos is the shit! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 15, 200619 yr Well, now it looks like the Dayton Daily News is leaving. That leaves, what, on that block of Ludlow? ...the Embassy, the Doubletree, and Kinkos. Poor Dayton is in bad shape. Sounds like the Daily News is pretty negative though. Even in other cities with not so hot downtowns, you always see the paper boosting downtown and saying how great its coming. Although I guess thats hard when you have so many closings...
March 21, 200619 yr From the 3/20/06 Dayton Business Journal: Efforts increase to keep NewPage downtown County, city officials to offer company incentives to stay Dayton Business Journal - March 17, 2006 by Tracy Kershaw-Staley DBJ Staff Reporter Downtown advocates continue their quest to keep NewPage Corp. in the city's core business district. The paper manufacturer, which is contemplating a move when its lease expires in March 2007, is evaluating a number of possibilities, as well as staying in its current headquarters in MeadWestvaco Tower in downtown Dayton. Dayton and Montgomery County leaders have been working on a deal that would make it economical for the company to stay downtown, said Norm Essman, the city's economic development director. Read More...
March 27, 200619 yr I worked for 3 years at Mead/MeadWestvaco in the Fine Papers Divison and left right before they got sold off and became NewPage. You heard it here first....they will RUN out of downtown when their lease is up. I would look for them to land somewhere near the Dayton Mall area. You can thank a gentleman by the name of Ray Finan for that (he's a good ol' Westvaco boy) and has done nothing but complain about downtown since the 2 companies merged. Also, I wouldn't be all that shocked to see NewPage bought again, as it has been managed SO poorly..It's hard to run and be an efficient company with incompetent people.
March 27, 200619 yr In talking with the people that I know from MeadWestvaco and New Page, they seem to pretty much agree with what you've said, PrfctTimeOfDay. I interned in the Consumer and Office Products Division in 2001...it's a totally different place today.
March 28, 200619 yr Here's one from about three weeks ago that I never got around to posting. I'm not sure I'd consider it a "gain": Downtown may gain some jobs Affiliated Computer Services to offer MeadWestvaco info-tech employees work By John Nolan Dayton Daily News DAYTON | Affiliated Computer Services Inc. is offering to hire some of the information technology employees of MeadWestvaco Corp. who might otherwise have to relocate or risk losing their jobs as MeadWestvaco shifts operations to Virginia. MeadWestvaco announced on Feb. 15 that it plans to move 500 jobs from the Dayton area during the next two years — most of them this summer — as part of the packaging company's relocation of its corporate headquarters from Connecticut to the Richmond, Va., area. The relocation will cut MeadWestvaco's downtown Dayton employment from 580 to 230 employees and eliminate its 150-employee operation in Miami Twp. Read More...
April 5, 200619 yr Court orders sale of Schwind Building Developer left project unfinished, $1.1M loan in default By Stephanie Irwin [email protected] DAYTON | Since the developer for the Schwind Building abandoned the project last summer, construction at 25-27 Ludlow St. has gone nowhere — and soon the building itself will be going, going, gone. The Montgomery County Common Pleas Court has ordered that the former hotel be sold at sheriff's auction as part of a mortgage foreclosure completed last week against its owner, developer Bill Rain and his company Rain & Associates. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank sued Rain in October when redevelopment of the building into market-rate loft housing failed to meet its July 2005 deadline. Read More...
April 5, 200619 yr Hell, they should have left it as the Moraine Embassy Apartments...at least some folks would have had some housing, and the Embassy would have had a landlord.
April 18, 200619 yr A story related to the tower from the 4/17/06 Dayton Business Journal: Thompson Hine law firm looking for new home Tenant changes spark search for new office Dayton Business Journal - April 14, 2006 by Yvonne Teems DBJ Staff Reporter Dayton's largest law firm may move out of downtown. Thompson Hine LLP, which employs 110 people including 50 lawyers in the MeadWestvaco Tower, is looking at new office spaces, including spots outside downtown and the city itself. If Cleveland-based Thompson Hine were to vacate downtown, it would be the only law firm among Dayton's 20 largest to operate outside of the city center. Most law firms have offices in the city's core to easily access the local and federal courthouses and to be near business contacts. But Bob Curry, lawyer and partner-in-charge at Thompson Hine, said his firm is considering the move because of a shake-up in management of the MeadWestvaco tower. After MeadWestvaco announced in February it would eliminate 500 Dayton-area jobs, the paper products company decided not to renew its master lease, which expires March 31, 2007. Read More...
April 18, 200619 yr the mead/westvaco merger was the worst thing to happen to downtown dayton. mead's ceo got a golden parachute and then john luke the westvaco ceo got complete control of both companies, and has made no qualms about moving the entire operation back to richmond, va. (which he has) wait...maybe this is the second worst thing to happen to dayton, with rhine mclin being the worst thing to happen. I just don't have any clue how they are going to fill up that tower with tenants? It's sad b/c 3 years ago when I worked there, that tower was filled to capacity.
April 20, 200619 yr Very true, PrfctTimeOfDay. When I worked there a few summers ago, not only was the tower completely full, they had offices in Miami Township, and I believe they also had office space in One Dayton Center. I wonder how long Consumer and Office Products will stay in downtown, or even in Dayton for that matter. I think their At-A-Glance unity is still in Sidney, NY and they may have a couple of other units elsewhere. I wonder how long before they want to consolidate all these units in one place...probably Richmond. :(
April 22, 200619 yr Downtown's population growing, along with rising hopes for area Increase in upscale rentals and residences attracting 'diverse population looking for the urban experience.' By James Cummings Staff Writer DAYTON | Tshaka Randall, a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Walter Rice, said he generally gets the same reaction from everyone who learns he lives downtown. http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0422downtown.html
April 23, 200619 yr Why don't Ohioans have pride in their cities? Another topic, I guess. C-Dawg Njaim brings up some good points: 1. Ohio has a shitty economy overall. 2. Ohio cities in general lack nightlife compared to other cities their size. 3. We are very suburban, and this makes a lot of people complain of the state being "boring". We have given up on the central cities for the most part and have left behind some pretty bad ghettos. 4. National media gives us no respect. 5. Ohio does an absolutely terrible job selling itself. My response to your 5 points: 1) Shitty Economy- This has always puzzled me. How could one of the leading economic powerhouses of the Union have fallen so far, so fast? My amateur opinion is this- during the great liberal, Keynesian period of the Union (1933-1980, or thereabouts) most of the investment went to States in the South and West. Then when the manufacturing economy of the Midwest fell apart in the early 80's, the attitude of the federal government went from helping out the American worker and farmer to bailing out the financial sector. Also, all those big corporations that were founded in Ohio in the 19th century and still exist today are a lot less local in their leadership and assets. 2) That may or may not be true. I'm only familiar with Cincinnati's nightlife. To me, nightlife in the United States is pretty much the same everywhere, just in some places you have more than others. It certainly isn't like nightlife in Europe, but that's probably because Americans work a lot more than other nationalities. 3) I can't agree with this. Ohio is far less suburban than other states of comparable population, mostly because we have eight major cities, all with rather long histories, while most states have one or two major cities of longterm historical significance. No way that Florida is less suburban than Ohio How old is Orlando, Tampa, or Miami? 4) Totally agree. The national media don't give us any respect, and that's largely because of reason C-Dawg Njaim's reason 5; 5) Ohio does a terrible job selling itself. Totally agree. Who speaks for Ohio. Bob Taft? George Voinovich or Mike DeWine? Taft is a joke here, whereas Voinovich and DeWine are respectable men, but they clearly have and feel a responsibility to the nation to consider as well. One of the virtues of Ohio, that it has eight major cities and many distinctive regions, is also one of its major drawbacks- each region tends to see itself as distinct from the rest of the state. No place is more guilty of that than Cincinnati. I've been a resident of Cincinnati my entire life, and I think I've spent one night in Toledo and one night in Cleveland. We need to catalogue our strengths and assets, and start re-investing in them and selling them.
April 23, 200619 yr ^lk i could not agree with you more, esp on the last point. the silence in the media from ohio compared to places like even mississippi is just inexcuseable. keeping quiet about yourself is no way to get notice in a world market. you can have the greatest ___ (fill in the blank), which ohio has much of, but what does it matter if noone knows you are out there?
May 13, 200619 yr Man, this thread is hard to find! Finally found it by searching for "just". Here's another DDN article (nothing new). Future of downtown Dayton looks bright, planning director reports Vitality of downtown will be based on 'jobs, amenities and housing,' John Gower says. By James Cummings Staff Writer DAYTON — Downtown Dayton is never going to be the retail and commercial center it once was, city Planning Director John Gower says. http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0513downtown2.html
May 24, 200619 yr from the dayton business journal 5/24/06 The city of Dayton is on track to meet its 2006 budget goals as of last month, but faces some obstacles for the remainder of the year, officials said at the city's monthly finance update Wednesday morning. Revenue is 1.1 percent ahead of the estimate through April and 2.8 percent higher than the same period last year, the city reported. However, city officials are concerned that continued job losses may impact the 2007 budget and beyond. They also said that overtime expenditures should have been lower this year because the area experienced milder weather, but spending in that category was flat. In its downtown development update this morning, the city noted its efforts to retain four corporate tenants that occupy the MeadWestvaco building at the intersection of Second and Main streets. Tenants MeadWestvaco Consumer & Office Products, NewPage Corp., Thompson Hine and Deloitte & Touche are considering moving to suburban locations, according to the city. Site decisions are expected by early July. Those businesses and CareSource, another business the city is aiming to retain, provide more than 1,100 jobs and $1.5 million in annual income tax. ***Side note*** this is my personal opinion, but having worked for mead for 3 years, new page and the rest of MWV is going to be out of there like a hot flash! Also, D&T is almost definite, as the only reason they were in the mead tower was b/c when mead was mead...they used D&T for pretty much all accounting/auditing practices. when mead merged, they dropped D&T so they really have no incentive to stay in the MWV tower....so by 2007, that tower may be completely empty....which is really sad b/c less than 2 years ago it was 100% occupied. Mead was having to lease space in another tower...so I hope the Dayton leaders can figure something out. Someone should find John Luke Jr. and bitch slap him ;-)
July 1, 200618 yr From the 6/30/06 Dayton Daily News: Danis headquarters leaving downtown for Miamisburg By John Nolan Staff Writer DAYTON | Danis Building Construction Co. said Friday it will move its headquarters office later this month out of Dayton, after 20 years downtown, to occupy the former Van Dyne Crotty Inc. general office in Miamisburg. John Danis, chief executive officer of Danis Building Construction, said he signed papers Friday morning to close his company's nearly $3 million purchase of the former Van Dyne Crotty office. Danis bought the property from Cintas Corp., the uniform design and rental company which bought rival Van Dyne Crotty's assets in February. Danis Building Construction plans to vacate its leased downtown office space on July 21 and open on July 24 in the new 29,000-square-foot offices, which will double the company's current space at its 2 River Place site. About 65 Danis employees will be moved in the relocation. Read More...
July 22, 200618 yr CSI Downtown Dayton - Where's The Crime? News feature By Holly Hudson The words “crime” and “Dayton” occur so often in the same sentence that one can’t help but wonder if they are now indelibly woven into our collective unconscious by years of bad news and scary local TV news reports. Certainly Dayton has seen, and continues to see, some hard times. The vortex created by the loss of manufacturing jobs has yet to be filled, urban flight continues apace, and the city is now home to some 7,500-odd vacant structures that only further serves to fuel the drug trade and gangs in the most impoverished and neglected neighborhoods. Reach DCP freelance writer Holly Hudson at [email protected] http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2803
July 23, 200618 yr I've been pretty critical of Dayton, but downtown crime is not one its problems (though its disconcerting to read about the car break-ins mentioned in the article) Panhandling can be annoying, but even that isnt as bad as I've seen elsewhere...pretty minor actually. I dont consider that a crime, though. Marsha Hanna, Artistic Director of the Human Race/Loft Theater, has experienced the safety-in-numbers tendency of her patrons. “People head quickly to their cars while the streets are full,” she said. “Many leave before the curtain call...get to their car, avoid the traffic jam (what traffic jam?) and get out of downtown before it becomes vacant.” boy aint that the truth! At the Victoria and at the Schuster. The patrons high-tail it to the parking garages and just get outta Dodge. Usually what I and my partner will do will go to a bar after the show...sometims its just for drinks, sometimes to catch a band (J Allens across from the Schuster has live music and is a great place for an after-show cocktail or beer). I had the misfortune of doing that and being parked in the garage. It turns out they lock up the garage after the show, so my car eneded up being trapped in a closed garage. Also, the "traffic jam" mentioned in the article is the traffic jam at the garage exit. Hanna felt that the most effective tool for fighting the fear of downtown was increased nightlife, open-air restaurants and outdoor activities. While many would like to see more of this nightlife, one can only assume it will be an uphill battle if the ongoing debate over licensing in the Oregon District is any measure. One would think it would be less of a battle as there are no whiney yuppy gentrifiers downtown, hence no one to complain about a nightclub.
July 25, 200618 yr Dayton to pay more attention to downtown The city appoints a veteran official to focus on economic development in its core district. By Joanne Huist Smith Dayton Daily News Staff Writer DAYTON — Dayton plans to put greater focus on attracting development downtown and retaining businesses already operating in the core. Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2362 or [email protected]. http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/072506development.html
July 28, 200618 yr From the 7/27/06 DDN: Businesses may move out of Mead building NewPage Corp. and Thomas Hine LLP are deciding whether to relocate from Dayton's second-largest building. By Kristin McAllister Staff Writer DAYTON — With MeadWestvaco's pending move out of Dayton, only the law firm Thompson Hine LLP and the paper products company NewPage Corp. will remain in the MeadWestvaco Tower at Courthouse Square. Contact this reporter at (937) 225-9338 or [email protected]. http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/content/business/daily/072706thompsonhine.html
July 31, 200618 yr Hopefully Rhine McLine will drink herself into a coma before she destroys this city.... KeyBank ponders move from downtown Dayton Business Journal - July 28, 2006by Suzelle TemperoDBJ Staff Report Add KeyBank to the long list of Dayton businesses reevaluating their downtown locations. KeyBank tallies about 80 years on Main Street but is considering a number of options for its 134,000-square-foot Dayton-region headquarters, including relocating the bulk of its employees to another location in the city. About 200 of its 400 local employees work in a call center, and that business does not need to be located in the downtown core, executives said. KeyBank's lease in the KeyBank building -- which houses the downtown branch, the corporate offices and the call center-- is set to expire in 2008. http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2006/07/31/story5.html
August 12, 200618 yr From the 8/12/06 DDN: Hochman and Plunkett law firm to leave Dayton It cites lack of need to be near courthouse, safety, parking hassles for customers downtown. By Timothy R. Gaffney Staff Writer DAYTON — Hochman and Plunkett Co., LPA, a longtime downtown law firm, will move its work force of more than 30 employees to Kettering by Sept. 1, Partner Gary Plunkett said Friday. Hochman is the latest of several businesses that have announced plans to leave downtown. He said a regional business focus, electronic filing and clients' reluctance to go to downtown Dayton were the main reasons for moving. Read More...
August 13, 200618 yr He also said clients find parking downtown difficult, parking fees a hassle, and they feel less safe coming downtown. "Most of our clients do not want us to be in downtown Dayton," he said. There you have it. People don't want to pay for parking. Also, I read at the Esrati blog that Maureen Pero, the director of the Downtown Dayton Partnership, is leaving.
August 14, 200618 yr To me, it looks like the best thing that could be done in Dayton is to take what few strengths you have and take advantage of them. Add more people to the Oregon district with lower-medium to medium density residential and continue to spread that atmosphere block-by-block, snake-like into and throughout Main St and connect this stretch to the theaters and the river up north with the art institute. And perhaps increase the police presence around downtown if necessary.
August 15, 200618 yr At last, a little good news: Company opening Dayton office, adding jobs By Timothy R. Gaffney Staff Writer DAYTON | What started with a father-and-son boar hunt has resulted in an East Coast software company's decision to open an office in downtown Dayton. Arlington, Va.-based Enterprise Information Management Inc. has opened an office in the Talbott Tower, 131 N. Ludlow St. and expects to hire 40 people by March, CEO Bruce Lyman said Monday. Lyman, who said his 10-year-old company has grown from 30 employees to 80 in the past year, said his projections for business growth include 150 employees in Dayton in three years. Read More...
August 15, 200618 yr EIM develops software for government and commercial clients. Lyman is a former Dayton-area resident who attended Ohio University, enlisted in the Air Force and earned a master's at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Defense contracting? That drives a segement of the local infotech sector.
August 16, 200618 yr I guess the only thing here that could be considered surprising is that they will be building a new building. I know Mead owned a bunch of undeveloped land around there that they have had for sale, so I wonder if it will be on some of that land. NewPage leaving Dayton; moving to Miami Twp. By Kristin McAllister Staff Writer DAYTON | NewPage Corporation today announced plans to move its 250 employees out of the MeadWestvaco Tower at Courthouse Square and into a new headquarters to be built in Miami Township in southern Montgomery County. The paper products company has signed a letter of intent with the Bunnell Hill Development and Construction Company to build a new corporate headquarters at the Newmark Center at the southeast corner of Interstate 75 and Interstate 675, just south of the Dayton Mall. NewPage has made plans for a short-term lease of its current space in the MeadWestvaco Tower and plans to move by the second quarter of 2007. Its current lease in the MeadWestvacao Tower is up March 2007. Read More...
August 16, 200618 yr Newmark already has quite a bit of office building, but there is plenty of open space there too. I was wondering how much of the fields and woods there are part of the "park" in the office park concept and how much was avaible for development. Mead used to own the land between MetLife and Austin Road, too (between Springboro Pike and I-75), so they had a big real estate presence down there
August 16, 200618 yr Mead used to own the land between MetLife and Austin Road, too (between Springboro Pike and I-75), so they had a big real estate presence down there Yeah, something that a lot of people seem to forget is that Lexis-Nexis used to be owned by Mead and called Mead Data Central. So it is not surprising that there is a lot of Mead owned land around the Lexis-Nexis HQ. However, I have no idea if they acquired all that land for the purpose of building a campus for Lexus-Nexis or if they have owned that land long before that or what.
August 16, 200618 yr I think or seem to have read that Mead had bought out there before MDC. It was probably a speculative investment and maybe an idea as a place for expansion. Back in the late 60s Monarch Marking and Huffy had relocated out to the Dayton Mall area (before the Mall itself), and NCR had built a big training center very near Newmark. So Mead was probably participating in the real estate speculation in the vicintiy of the OH-725 exit and the future I-675/I-75 interchange.
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